Joseph Bent (1675 - 1728)

Born 5 Mar 1675 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Rachel (Fuller) Bent — married 27 Oct 1698 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 31 Mar 1728 at age 53 in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

From 'The Bent Family in America', by Allen H. Bent, p.21:

Joseph Bent (Joseph, John) was born in Sudbury, Mass., March 5, 1675, and died in Milton, Mass., March 31, 1728, ae. 53. Left an orphan at an early age, he was brought up first in Marshfield, Mass., by his maternal grand-parents, and, after his grand-mother's death in 1686, by his uncle, John Man, who had married his mother's sister, Alice Bourne. Man was instructed by the Court "to three or four years hence put him out to a trade and meantime to instruct him in reading and writing." The trade to which he was apprenticed, presumably at fourteen, and that which he followed through life, was the blacksmith's, which many of his descendants have also followed. An honorable calling surely,

" For, since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations,

Has the craft of the smith been held in repute by the people,"

says Longfellow.

John Man lived in Milton, and thus it was that the Bent family came to locate in the town, where, after the lapse of more than two centuries, the name is still to be found. Originally a part of Dorchester and known by the Indian name of Unquity, Milton became a separate town in 1662, so that it was still young when Joseph Bent, a boy in his teens, went thither. Previous to the white man's settlement here in the Neponset valley and on the slopes of the Blue Hills, it had been the home of the Indian tribe whose name has been enshrined in the word Massachusetts. Aside from this, Milton has been a noteworthy town. On Milton Hill, in pre-Revolutionary days, dwelt Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, whose refusal to allow the tea ships to pass out of the harbor in 1773 caused the "Boston Tea Party." Gov. Jonathan Belcher had lived in the town in still earlier days, and on the slope of the Big Blue Hill still resides Roger Wolcott, the honored Governor of the Bay State in 1897, 1898, 1899. Milton has raised a President of Harvard College, Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, two Revolutionary colonels, John Crane and Joseph Vose, and was the home of Charles Sumner's ancestors. Many distinguished people still find a pleasant home within its bounds, among them Mrs. Adeline D. T. Whitney, the writer, and in the same burial ground, where the little slate stone is to be seen over the grave of Joseph Bent, not only "the rude fore-fathers of the hamlet sleep," but also the remains of the great Wendell Phillips.

Joseph Bent married, Oct. 27, 1698, Rachel, born Dec. 3, 1673, and died July 5, 1725, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Fuller of Dedham, Mass.

Died Y. 31 MAR 1728. Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Age: 53.

Event: Confirmation (LDS). 8 JAN 1932. Age: 256. Endowment (LDS). 23 MAR 1948. Age: 273. Sealed to Parents (LDS). 16 OCT 1951. Age: 276.

Sources

See also:

• Ancestry.com American Marriages Before 1699 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.Original data - Clemens, William Montgomery. American Marriage Records Before 1699. Pompton Lakes, NJ, USA: Biblio Co., 1926.Original data: Clemens, William Montgomery. American Marriage
• Edmund West, comp. Title: Family Data Collection - Deaths Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.; Repository
• Yates Publishing Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was deriv
• Edmund West, comp. Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
• Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Title: Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.Original data - With some noted exceptions all marriage records in this collection can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and may be available through Fam
• Edmund West, comp. Title: Family Data Collection - Births Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.
• 'The Bent Family in America', Allen H. Bent, https://archive.org/stream/bentfamilyiname00bentgoog#page/n32/mode/2up

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Robert Cherry for creating WikiTree profile Bent-496 through the import of CherryOttosen_2013-03-19.ged on Mar 19, 2013.